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Learn how to replicate the DIY aesthetic of low-budget cel animation in After Effects, and create hand-drawn, scribbled, and painted motion graphics.
Learn how to create a hand-drawn look without all the hand drawing. This course shows how to replicate the DIY aesthetic of low-budget cel animation in After Effects. Mograph artist Owen Lowery shows how to use shape layers to create, texture, and animate the "hand-drawn" elements, and replicate the look of handwritten fonts and street graffiti. The tutorials demonstrate how versatile the After Effects tools can be when you stretch them beyond their traditional uses and employ some creative problem solving.
Want to create another lo-fi mograph effect? Check out Creating a Handmade Look in After Effects 01: Paper Cutout and Stop Motion Styles.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know and the exercise files
- Characteristics of hand-drawn animation
- Drawing lines using shape layer strokes
- Labeling and organizing shape contents
- Using blending modes on lines
- Roughen edges and other effects on lines
- Using wiggle paths to create wiggly lines
- Using trim paths for draw-on animation
- Adding ink bleed and stain
- Shape attributes throw-down challenge
- Paintbrush tool overview
- Mimicking a spray-paint stencil
- Customizing handwritten font
- Using a stroke effect to draw-on text
- Combining drawing techniques
- Next steps and additional uses of techniques
